A Moment Like This: A Contemporary Christian Romance Prequel Novella (The Grace Series Book 4) by Staci Stallings

Author:Staci Stallings [Stallings, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Spirit Light Publishing
Published: 2016-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

Derek & Jaycee

Although they had worked together for three years, Derek was not wholly prepared for the difficulty-level of shopping with Caleb. The tux decision, which had been relatively easy when they had gone for his wedding, was anything but with his friend. The first issue was the price, the second was that he couldn’t get Rachel’s opinion on anything.

“I don’t know,” he said about the fifth one he’d tried on. “White? I don’t think I’m really a white kind of guy. Besides, is her dress white or is it like champagne or something? I don’t want to clash.”

“Tell you what,” Luke finally said in exasperation, “let me call Sage. I’m sure she’ll have an opinion.”

Caleb continued to stand in the five-way mirror, turning this way and that before shaking his head each time.

“Yeah, hey, darlin’…” And Luke stepped off to the side.

“I don’t know,” Caleb said for the millionth time that morning. “I’ve got that black jacket. I could just…”

Derek took a long, slow breath to calm his agitated patience. “Okay, what am I missing here? When we did this for mine, you were not half this high maintenance.”

A second and Caleb deflated. “I just want it to be right, for Rachel. What she wants, but this? It feels… over the top.”

“You’re not at peace with it?”

“No.”

With a nod, Derek glanced around. “Okay. What was the best one so far?”

“The black wasn’t bad. At least I didn’t stick out like a sore thumb in it.”

“Okay.” Turning to the salesman, Derek said, “Could we get the black one again? Yeah, the first one.” He looked back at Caleb. “Vest?”

The decision was the longest of Derek’s life, but he and Jaycee had worked with the preacher for their wedding, and he was learning how to just back-off and give life a chance to sort things out.

“I think I liked the silver one the best, but I don’t know if…”

“Okay,” Luke said, coming back from his conversation with his wife, “Sage says black, probably bow-tie or Euro if you like that better.”

“Bow tie,” Caleb said, sounding far more solid.

“Black or silver?” Derek asked as the salesman brought the first one back over.

Caleb shook his head as if he didn’t know, so Derek grabbed up the ties they had tried so far.

“This one?” Derek held up the jet-black tie.

“Maybe.”

He put it in the maybe stack he’d just created. “This one?”

One look and Derek knew that one was out, so without waiting for his friend, he said, “No” and put it to the other side. He held the next one up. “This one?”

“That’s not bad.”

“No.” Derek put it in the no pile. “This one.” He held up the three-toned silver with black diamonds one.

Caleb stopped, stood, and tipped his head. “I actually kind of like that one, but isn’t it…?”

“Great,” Derek said. He picked up the silver vest from earlier and put them into Caleb’s hands. “Go put it on.”

“Shouldn’t we see…?”

“Just put them on,” Luke said from the other side of him, and

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